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Malian music star Toumani Diabate passed away after a short illness, his family announced over the weekend. Music lovers across the planet paid tribute to a master instrumentalist who helped share ...

Toumani Diabate is acknowledged to be the foremost kora player in the world. The kora is a 21-string harp-lute instrument that has been played in Africa for centuries. It was the signature of the ...

BAMAKO - Mali's "king of kora" Toumani Diabate died on Friday at the age of 58 following a short illness, the musician's family announced on social media. "My dear dad is gone forever," the Malian ...

Oumou Sangaré’s first five albums for the British World Circuit label stuck mostly to the raunchy Wassoulou style, characterized by pentatonic style and irresistible loping polyrhythms; but her first ...

Lucy Duran introduces a session from Malian vocalist Oumou Sangare, and Robin Denselow reports on the music of the newly-independent South Sudan. Show more Lucy Duran is joined in the World Routes ...

"My dear dad is gone forever," the Malian great's son Sidiki Diabate, who is also a musician, wrote on Facebook. Toumani Diabate was a master of the African stringed instrument, the kora. He died at a ...